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Reservations
The Reservations option enables users to schedule conferences. These conferences can be
launched immediately or become ongoing, at a specified time on a specified date.
Scheduling a conference reservation requires definition of conference parameters such as
the date and time at which the conference is to start, the participants and the duration of the
conference.
Scheduled conferences (Reservations) can occur once or repeatedly, and the recurrence
pattern can vary.
The maximum number of reservations per Collaboration Server is 2000.
Guidelines

Resources

Maximum number of participants (voice and video) in a CP reservation:
• Polycom RMX 1800 with 3 video accelerators: Up to 100 HD 720p 30 or 50 HD 1080p
25/30 fps.
• Polycom RMX 1800 with 2 video accelerators: Up to 70 HD 720p 30 or 35 HD 1080p 25/
30 fps.
• Polycom RMX 1800 with 1 video accelerators: Up to 100 HD 720p 35 or 17 HD 1080p
25/30 fps.
• System resources are calculated according to the Collaboration Server’s license. For
more information see "Forcing Video Resource Allocation to CIF Resolution” on page 19-6.
• System resource availability is partially checked when reservations are created:
—If a conference duration extension request is received from an ongoing conference,
the request is rejected if it would cause a resource conflict.
—If several reservations are scheduled to be activated at the same time and there are
not enough resources for all participants to be connected:
• The conferences are activated.
• Participants are connected to all the ongoing conferences until all system
resources are used up.
• If sufficient resources are not available in the system and a scheduled Reservation cannot
be activated, the Reservation is deleted from the schedule.
• Resources are reserved for participants at the highest video resolution supported by the
Line Rate specified in the conference Profile and up to the maximum system video
resolution specified by the Resolution Configuration dialog box.